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15823
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The 1979 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly enacted legislation to protect farm operations from nuisance suits under certain circumstances. The law is of interest to local government officials and planners because of its implications for urban-rural conflicts in land use, suburban growth patterns, and annexation of farm land by municipalities.
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15824
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The North Carolina Nature Conservancy first opened its doors in Chapel Hill in 1977. Today it has grown to over 2,000 members statewide. The Conservancy is a publicly-supported, non-profit, scientific and education organization. Since its inception, the Conservancy has successfully preserved eight of the ten most ecologically significant areas in North Carolina.
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15825
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During the last twenty years, the importance of ensuring proper land planning and landscape management on barrier islands has been firmly established. Culminating with the passage and implementation of the North Carolina Coastal Area Management Act of 1974, the overall planning and management process for barrier islands has substantially improved the balance between island development activities and the ability of the barrier island to maintain its essential ecological and geomorphological functions and processes. This includes the considerable role of maritime forests in the overall maintenance of the barrier island ecosystem.
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15826
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A recent Sea Grant publication by Jim Sabella and Marcus Hepburn helps agencies regulating the State's fisheries to know something about the people and communities they are regulating--their values, their history, and their culture, which includes areas like Harkers Island with rich old fishing and boat-building traditions.
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15827
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One of the most controversial natural resource management issues in North Carolina has been the debate surrounding the future of the Currituck Outer Banks. As one of the last remaining undeveloped and privately owned barrier island stretches on the East Coast, this debate, between environmentalists, developers, planners, and governments, has taken on national significance.
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15836
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An area of city planning receiving is the use of zoning as an alternative to control the proliferation of the adult entertainment business. The author looks at Fayetteville, North Carolina as a case study for adult entertainment zoning.
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15838
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For years, state and local governments have experimented with a variety of growth management tools to maintain the economic viability of farming and to control spreading urbanization, public works projects, and other consumers of rural lands. Orange County, North Carolina is now in the process of instituting a Farm Preservation program to deal with such issues.
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15839
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In fear over the future of the federal tobacco program, tobacco farmers are looking for alternatives, such as fruit and vegetables, to tobacco. The primary problem in switching is marketing. Only tobacco offers the safety of a guaranteed market.
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As urban areas grow in size and population, they rely more heavily on surrounding rural areas for additional land and water resources. Such a situation has arisen in North Carolina's Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. In the last decade, the population of the area and the number of people served by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) have increased by 33 percent. If the expected growth trend continues the OWASA must locate an additional, reliable source of raw water to meet the projected demands. This is difficult given the rapidly urbanizing areas and also pollution from agricultural land use.
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15841
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Western North Carolina is well known for its mountains and recreation opportunities, and recreation-related development is improving the region's economy but is also bringing fundamental social changes to the region.
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15842
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The city of Roanoke confronted the problems of a decaying downtown by recognizing that a new approach would be required to reverse the flight to the suburbs. A committee of prominent citizens and business leaders explored the objectives of citizen enthusiasm, recycling of old buildings, preservation and enhancement of the farmer's market, and the developing of vacant land to revitalize the downtown area with success.
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15843
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Tarboro is a community of 10,000 people located on the Tar River in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Twenty percent of Tarboro lies within a local historic district, and almost double this amount is included on the National Register of Historic Places. Community historic preservation groups existed since the 1960s, and have succeeded due to their link with creative public/private economic revitalization projects.
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15844
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Citizen initiative and public support created the greenway system for Raleigh, generating interest in preserving the floodplains from encroaching development.
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15845
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Abandonment and neglect are destroying the well-built farmhouses vital to North Carolina's rural heritage and landscape; in these actions, history is lost and valuable housing stock is wasted. But there are possibilities of a brighter future for old homeplaces. One is the increasing number of people moving back to rural areas of North Carolina and these buildings also offer attractive places for preservation initiatives.
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15846
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Settled in 1710, New Bern became a major port and mercantile center, but with the advent of the railways and improved roads during the early 1900s led to New Bern's decline. Recognizing the importance of downtown New Bern and the architectural and historical heritage of older parts of the city, the community began taking steps to solve the decline.
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